Category Archives: Airline Meals

United is copying American and Delta, but in this case the news good: biscoff cookies will soon be available onboard for free. Stroopwafels, which United introduced onboard in 2017, have become a household name in the USA in part...

Fly United this month and you can order a smoked beef and pork sausage link smothered in BBQ sauce and served on a pretzel roll. But its journey from kitchen to airplane demonstrates how difficult it is to offer...

British Airways’ CEO Alex Cruz has no regret over cutting free food and drink from economy class on shorthaul flights. None at all. In an interview earlier this week, he claimed that negative passenger reaction “didn’t surprise me at...

We can draw an important lesson from a story of raw chicken served on a commercial flight. The UK Sun tells the story like this. 26-year-old Jamie Farrar ordered chicken satay on his flight from Bali to Kuala Lumpur on...

You remember eating that freeze-dried “space” food growing up? When I was a kid, that was a big gimmick. Well, space food is back…on an airplane. If you’re flying Lufthansa Business Class this summer, you’ll have the option of...

A man who complained about receiving a granola bar for breakfast on a $2.2K British Airways ticket was met with a cheeky response from British Airways. First, let’s start with the “breakfast”. I know that flights from New York...

A small reprieve for premium cabin flyers on domestic United flights: United is rescinding its recent meal service cutbacks. I was alerted to this via an e-mail received from a Global Services passenger who had complained about the recent...

My final segment on my Qatar Airways “Golden Ticket” was a flight from Doha to Ho Chi Minh City aboard an A330 that departed at 2am. You might think catering would be more limited on an overnight flight departing...

Is compensation due when a FA fails to wake you up to eat, as requested? As my Qatar Airways flight was entering final descent yesterday, one passenger was giving a FA a piece of her mind. She was livid...

Repeat after me: it’s just an airline meal. It’s just an airline meal. I wish stuff like this did not bother me… I flew from Minneapolis to LA earlier this week on United. The flight was operated by a...

Earlier this week I flew Eurowings on an undisclosed route operated by Air Berlin. An unexpected and kind gesture from a FA really made my day. It was an afternoon flight and as is customary, no complimentary snack or...